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Millennial Burnout is Me

It feels like a cop-out to refer you to someone else’s writing, instead of creating my own material here to position myself as another”old” or early Millennial with my finger on the pulse. I felt guilty even taking the time to read a long article that perfectly encapsulated how I feel about my own life and circumstances….

“My new watchword was “Everything that’s good is bad, everything that’s bad is good”: Things that should’ve felt good (leisure, not working) felt bad because I felt guilty for not working; things that should’ve felt “bad” (working all the time) felt good because I was doing what I thought I should and needed to be doing in order to succeed.”

Anne Helen Petersen

Reading a book is a guilty pleasure, watching a movie with my partner is a “wasted” two hours, even the two-day weekend is an extravagant luxury to be filled with To Do lists of necessary, urgent side gigs that used to be passion projects….

Even this blog post, in which I initially intended to just tell you to read someone else’s brilliant work, has become an exercise in simultaneous self-flagellation and self-promotion…

So I’ll just stop myself here and go do laundry (or read more articles about husbands on Tidying Up With Marie Kondo who don’t do laundry.)